Henriette von Bohlen and Halbach

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Henriette "Hetty / Hetti" von Bohlen und Halbach (born September 2, 1933 in Sankt Johann im Pongau , Salzburg , Austria , as Henriette Auersperg ; † May 30, 2019 in Sankt Johann in Tirol , Tyrol , Austria) was the daughter of Alois Auersperg (born in 1897 as Alois, Prince of Auersperg ) and Henriette Auersperg (born in 1903 as Henriette, Countess Larisch von Mönnich , from 1919 Henriette Larisch-Moennich ).

Life

Hetty Auersperg grew up in Salzburg and Kitzbühel as the daughter of a diplomat, in Bregenz she attended the Sacre Cœur monastery school. She married "as the beginning of a marriage of convenience" on February 1, 1969 in Werfen, the homosexual German entrepreneur's son and last offspring of the Krupp dynasty, Arndt von Bohlen and Halbach . The church wedding was on February 14th at Blühnbach Castle near Werfen in Salzburg . Arndt von Bohlen and Halbach was not an easy character, but the marriage, which was more of a mutual friendship, lasted until his death. The marriage remained childless.

Hetty Auersperg and Arndt von Bohlen and Halbach met on a ship trip to Brazil. From this encounter a friendship developed that was characterized by tolerance and pragmatism. At the end of 1968, when they were traveling together again and spent an evening in Casablanca, the following dialogue is said to have developed, according to the story of Henriette von Bohlen and Halbach: "I told him I wanted to become a stewardess." Arndt replied : “Why are you looking for a job? Marry me and you'll be taken care of. I am looking for a housewife and you are a person I can trust. ”In terms of society, the wedding in February 1969 was the event of the year that was announced with:“ Arndt von Bohlen and Halbach is fitting news of his upcoming marriage to Henriette Princess von Auersperg, daughter of Prince Alois von Auersperg and his wife Henriette Princess von Auersperg born. Countess Larisch von Mönnich. ”-“ 'No question about it, he liked my title, my origins,' recalls Henriette von Bohlen. 'And he envied me the size of my family, the relationship we had with one another. Arndt himself had never experienced this. '”Invited were members of the old former nobility, including Hohenbergs, Hohenlohes, Galens, Fürstenbergs,“ whoever was related to the marriage ”and“ whose name he [Arndt] knew from his beloved Gotha ". Conversely, because he loved the public, the press was also informed. Around forty reporters were invited to a specially held press reception, including editors-in-chief of Spiegel , Stern , Constanze and Neue Revue , who received letters with all the important information. Since it was feared that not only the invited, but also other national and international press people would arrive and ask the "usual questions about sexual past life or other circumstances surrounding his love", Arndt von Bohlen hired the experienced media advisor Josef von Ferenczy . His advice "stay calm, just don't panic" sounded in Henriette von Bohlen's ear in the interview about the book (Kammertöns 1998).

The Krupp estate "Bled Targui", located northwest of the center of Marrakech in a former Tuareg oasis, a desert castle that King Hassan II of Morocco had given to Arndt's father, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach , was tailored to the needs of the couple transformed. It “became one of the top addresses in town. While Arndt had gathered a pretty weird crowd here with all sorts of oriental frills in his bachelor days, his wife was now providing social glamor. Yves St. Laurent and Princess Soraya appeared as reliable as the actors Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anthony Quinn at their casual parties, held on Saturdays at the edge of the swimming pool . Henriette hosted evening dinners, the course of which was dominated by precise menus and where there was always a well-considered seating arrangement. Arndt wanted it that way. His wife, who was inclined to spontaneity and improvisation, accepted these requests, which were reminiscent of the strange orderly constraints of his ancestors. 'Otherwise he left the field to me. He followed many conversations at the table in silence, moments when you had to get the laughter out of him, 'remembers his wife. ”(Kammertöns 1998). The common jet-set life, as well as his charity engagements (see below), were financed from the waiver of Arndt's inheritance in the amount of an estimated 2.5 to 3.5 billion DM and 2 million DM annual allowance , which he said in the media The title of “richest early retiree in Germany”.

After extensive trips at sea together, they went their separate ways for a while, during which they wrote letters to each other. “In this correspondence between Arndt and his wife, not a word was said about affairs. [...] The other area of ​​his life, the homosexual circles in which Arndt frequented, was left out on the letterhead. In this respect the image of a noble relationship, without revelations from him, without reproaches from her. ”(Kammertöns 1998).

On the other hand, Arndt von Bohlen was not only the spendthrift and " ne'er-do ", as he was portrayed in the media, but was in line with Krupp tradition as Mild offenders available. He received begging letters again and again, addresses and sums were noted in lists, and each May they considered who would receive presents for Christmas. He was also charitable abroad, such as in the Philippines and Thailand , where, following the example of his grandmother Bertha , he convinced himself on the spot that it was being used properly. “He liked to share, that corresponded to his deepest being, but at such moments he also felt like king, as boss of Krupp”, says Henriette von Bohlen in retrospect (Kammertöns 1998).

Although Henriette did everything for her husband, “I still believed I was strong enough”, she could not prevent Arndt from withdrawing more and more and “between his ship, on which the vodka and whiskey bottles were piled, and the world […] [Built] walls like his father once did in Essen ”(Kammertöns 1998).

Since her husband died from cancer on May 8, 1986, von Bohlen und Halbach lived in Marrakech in the summer months and in a rented apartment in Kitzbühel in the winter months . After tax litigation, all that remained was the Krupp villa in Marrakech, which she could not maintain on her own. That's why she rented parts of the property, and later the whole palace. Since at least 2001 she has tried to sell the palace built in the Moroccan style by the French architect Robert Geroh , the interior of which was designed by the American interior designer Donald Nardona . Henriette von Bohlen was able to sell Blühnbach Castle to an American millionaire earlier, in 1988/89; in the Munich city ​​palace on Georgenstrasse , "where he [Arndt von Bohlen] celebrated the wildest parties in the 60s and 70s", law firms and auditors now have their headquarters. Henriette von Bohlen und Halbach was buried in the city cemetery in Kitzbühel in the Auersperg family grave in 2019.

Documentation

  • In 1999, Martin Pfeil shot the documentary "" A Princess on a Journey through Life " for the series Lebenslinien , a co-production by BR and NDR . Hetti von Bohlen and Halbach ”.
  • Your life was filmed up close by WDR as part of the series Menschen .
  • André Heller shot a one-hour portrait of Henriette von Bohlen and Halbach in his series “Menschenkinder” in 2018

literature

  • Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns: The last Krupp - Arndt von Bohlen and Halbach. The end of a dynasty. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1998.
  • Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns: The last Krupp - Arndt von Bohlen and Halbach: The end of a dynasty , Verlag Klartext, Essen, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8375-0930-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Peter Seilern, "Seilern Family": Entry on Arndt von Bohlen u. Halbach + Henriette "Hetti" Auersperg.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved on September 27, 2010. (Different spelling of Hetti versus Hetty. )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.seilern.ch  
  2. ↑ Alois Maria Joseph Alexander Prinz von Auersperg on thepeerage.com , accessed on August 20, 2015.
  3. ↑ Henriette Countess Larisch von Moennich on thepeerage.com , accessed on August 20, 2015.
  4. ↑ Dagmar von Taube: Von Bohlen and Halbach: The queen of the wild 70s jet set . August 10, 2012 ( welt.de [accessed June 1, 2019]).
  5. ↑ a b c Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns 1998, chapter "Scenes from a marriage".
  6. ↑ a b c d See also Beate Wedekind (journalist, society reporter in the 1980s with the society column "My Rendezvous" from 1983 to 1988 in the Bunten ): The Arndt von Bohlen story. In: Beate Wedekinds 50plus.blog, March 24, 2009. ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 27, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / beatewedekind50plus.blog.de
  7. ↑ a b c Marrakech Immobilier objet: Villa Bled Targui. Retrieved September 27, 2010.
  8. ↑ a b Celia Brayfield: Morocco goes jet set. Marrakesh is showing signs of becoming a city with Costa cachet. In: The Sunday Times , June 29, 2007 with a report on jet set life in the villa in the 1970s and the then current purchase price. Retrieved September 27, 2010.
  9. ↑ a b Residing like in 1001 nights. In: Welt Online , February 23, 2001. September 27, 2010.
  10. ↑ The down payment on the inheritance waiver from 19./20. September 1966 (see Spiegel, No. 47/1995) cleared the way for the establishment of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation , see Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, September 2006.
  11. ↑ Spiegel online : someone holds his hand over it. The industrialist Berthold Beitz on his life at Krupp. Interview by Gabor Steingart , Rüdiger Jungbluth and Rudolf Augstein with Berthold Beitz . In: Der Spiegel , No. 47/1995, November 20, 1995. Retrieved September 27, 2010.
  12. ^ Gregor Tholl: History: 40 years renunciation of inheritance of the last Krupp. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , September 13, 2006. Retrieved September 27, 2010.
  13. ↑ The last Krupp is dead. Arndt von Bohlen and Halbach lost his battle with cancer.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Lymph gland cancer since 1979.) In: Hamburger Abendblatt , Historisches Archiv, No. 106 of May 9, 1986, page 24. Accessed on September 27, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / suche.abendblatt.de  
  14. ↑ a b Martin Pfeil - Filmography (excerpts): ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Documentation for "Lifelines" (with 45-second excerpt in RealVideo format ): "" A princess on a journey through life. " Hetti von Bohlen and Halbach ”. First broadcast on June 21, 1999. Brief description on gaystation.info: A princess on a journey through life. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Both links accessed on September 27, 2010. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bLDdo0ldgo @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pfeil-film.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gaystation.info
  15. ^ Tania Leuschner: my awesome minutes. Thursday, 07/26/01 ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : "Information about the house at Casas & Gente or at Sotheby's in Muenchen". Retrieved September 27, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tanialeuschner.de
  16. ↑ Cathy Hawker: Love that riad rush. In: Evening Standard Homes & Property, August 22, 2007, p. 11. ( Online (PDF; 764 kB) at esadvertising.co.uk. ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) Hetti von Bohlen is quoted in the promotional article about the "parties" of the 1970s. Retrieved September 27, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.esadvertising.co.uk
  17. ↑ Spiegel TV , report 20 rooms, kitchen, bathroom - luxury real estate for multi-millionaires. spiegelv.de, spiegel.tv . Accessed on October 30, 2014. (According to Beate Wedekind, 2009, see itemization above, the property has already been sold.)
  18. ↑ Henriette von Auersperg - Google Search. Retrieved May 8, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Hetti von Bohlen and Halbach - A princess on a journey through life (trailer). Retrieved August 20, 2019 .
  20. ↑ WDR: People up close. Broadcast on December 4, 2000. ( Archive link ( Memento from September 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive ))
personal data
SURNAME Bohlen and Halbach, Henriette von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Auersperg, Henriette; Auersperg, Henriette Princess von (aristocratic history)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian wife of Arndt von Bohlen and Halbach
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Johann im Pongau , State of Salzburg , Austria
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 2019
Place of death St. Johann in Tirol , Tyrol , Austria